The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 90, No. 155 Thursday, July 17, 1980
Reagan ends guessing with nomination of Bush
DETROIT (UPI) - Say what you will about Ronald Reagan, he certainly knows how to keep Donald Reagan.
No one, including George Bush, knew until about 45 minutes before Reagan made his surprise appearance at the GOP National Convention when he was going to pick Bush for his running mate.
And the Republican presidential nominee was not even sure himself who it would be until about 11 p.m. last night. Reagan placed a call just before he departed for a visit to former L.R. ambassador to be his running mate.
A surprised Bush said the call "came out of the clear blue sky," and added he had thought former President Gerald Ford would be given the No. 2 spot on the ticket.
Indeed, after speaking to the convention Wednesday, Bush was testy when asked by reporters if he had heard anything from Reagan and Obama. "I don't want to talk about it," he snapped.
ALL DAY yesterday, there were reports Reagan and Ford were working out a deal in which Ford would agree to become Reagan's running mate in return for assurances he would be given specific, important duties as vice president.
Several Republican leaders and delegates expressed delight with the news, saying a hard-fought fight was coming.
ticket" that could drive Jimmy Carter from the White House.
Earlier in the week, the frontrunners for the vice presidential nomination were reported to be Bush. Rep. Jack Kemp of New York, Rep. Guy McCarthy of Michigan, and Sen. Richard Luar of Indiana.
But not a word was leaked from the Reagan campaign about who she was ahead in the running or coming up with it.
FORD MET PRIVATELY with Reghan
tuesday to discuss possible vice presidenti-
dency role.
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Reagan offered Ford the No. 2 spot during that meeting and Ford turned him down. Reagan
But, the reports touched off a movement by several convention delegates to draft Ford for vice president. And, word leaked out, Ford met again with Reagan yesterday as the momentum for a Ford vice presidential candidacy swept through the convention.
Party leaders and campaign insiders were widely quoted as saying Ford had agreed to run the election.
The news organizations had finally gitten the early jump on the major story at the conference last year.
and the other candidates being considered for the No. 2 snot, were all but forgotten.
IT WAS NOT until after 11 p.m. yesterday that Ford went to Reagan's hotel suite to turn down the offer. Later, Reagan picked up the phone and called Bush.
Bush's surprise nomination elicited ear-to-ear grins from the most ardent of his supporters in the Kansas delegation, but also brought foreboding grumbles from others.
Lawrence said, moments after Reagan dispelled rumors that former President Gerald Ford had been a Republican. He announced he wanted Bush as his vice president.
"Our emotions went up and down, up and down all night. This whole thing was one of the craziest things ever," said Rusty Lefel of Shawnee Mission. Anderson and Leffel were among Kansas' four Bush delegates, who turned over their presidential votes to Reagan but retained
NOT ALL in the 32-member Kansas delegation shared in the delight, however.
"I'm disappointed," delegate Jim Jeffries Jr. of Lenexa mumbled as he walked over the
See REAGAN page seven
Ronald Reagan
George Bush
Kansan Presidential Preference Poll
Anderson leads in KU poll
By DAVID STIPP Staff Reporter
Last week while Ronald Peagan was getting ready for his show in Detroit and President Carter was making headlines in Japan, John Anderson drubbed his competitors for president
In the poll of 315 randomly selected KU students, Anderson received more straw votes than Wright and Nearest, the nearest competitors, did together. When asked whom they favored for president, 121 students, 38 percent, said Anderson. Sixty-two students, 20 percent, supported Carter and 49, 16 percent, supported Harper.
The remaining 26 percent said they had no presidential preference, or supported others, including Sen. Edward Kennedy, Barry Commoner, and George Bush.
THOUGH 87 PERCENT of the students polled said they planned to vote in the presidential election, many said they were dissatisfied with the candidates for president and had no strong preference.
Mary Makepeace, Lawrence graduate
student, said she was a "strong Democrat," but he seemed the lot of several evils.
"It's a situation in which I'm vehemently opposed to Reagan and Carter," she said. "I guess I will vote for Anderson basically by default.
"I like Carter as a person, but I don't think he works very well with Congress, and like a lot of people, I feel he's been lacking in strong leadership. I'm not sure Anderson will be any more successful than Carter, but I think he shows the feisty independence of a good leader."
SUPPORTERS OF CARTER and Reagan also said they favored their choice for president only because they considered the other candidates worse.
Tim Grillol, Parsons sophomore, said he would vote for (or against) president, but had doubts about his ability to lead the nation.
"I've always been a Republican," Grillot said. "I really did like Anderson some, but I didn't agree with his stand on abortion so I'm going to vote for Reagan."
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SOME STUDENTS SAID that they were so
disillusioned with the major presidential candidates that they wouldn't yote.
Ric Cummins, Lawrence junior, said he thought Carter was the biggest problem facing the country, but no candidate seemed worth voting for.
"I think Carter is dangerous," he said. The man almost singlehandedly destroyed half the ship.
"I don't think anyone's really qualified to decide who should be president. Just look at the candidates we've got. If you've got idiots for an audience then you get idiots for actors."
Though Anderson's support in the poll came mostly from students who said they were Independents, many Anderson supporters said Republicans, registered as Democrats or Republican,
A greater percentage of Republicans than Democrats said they would cross party lines to vote for Anderson. Thirty-three percent, or 24, of the Republicans questioned said they were going to vote for Anderson. Twenty-eight percent, or 19, of the Democrats said they favored Anderson.
See POLL page six
Firm offers plan for downtown mall
By LAURA LUCKERT
Staff Reporters
With a quarter million dollars worth of planning, charts, and a scale model, the Cleveland based company of Jacobs, Viscans, and Jacobs $38 million downtown shopping mall last month.
DON JONES, representative of JVJ, presented architectural drawings and a model of an enclosed mail that would cover the area between Oakland from Massachusetts Street to Ribault Road Street.
Also, Jones answered written questions from local citizens at the Lawrence High School cafeteria. The questions ranged from why some Massachusetts Street stores, "with their charm and history," could not be incorporated into the main plans; to what the cost of rent in the mail hall was.
Jones said his firm wanted to work out a plan compatible with the downtown area.
"We want to strengthen the Sacramento streets area," he said. "We want our plan to be more accessible."
LAWRENCE MAYOR ED CARTER, in response to the same question, said that no mail would be built if the city could not afford it, or if the city did not want it.
"Public input will begin soon," he said. "This proposition is an alternative. We are only underiding this plan."
In reference to the question about the rent prices, Jones said the rent ratio would probably run from $12 to $14 per square foot per year. He said JVJ would not give preferential treatment to Lawrence merchants, but that they would want to buy local merchants who wanted to rent in the mall.
Another question was where the elderly in East Lawrence will do their grocery shopping if Way-Lo Warehouse food store, 2th and New Hampshire streets, is displaced.
The JVJ MODEL shows that Way-Lo will be removed if the mall slants are accepted.
Jones said he hoped the store could relocate to a convenient for the elderly of East Lawrences.
JVJ is a shopping mall construction company which has completed 20 mails in the past 30 years. After shelving a cornfield mall project because of complaints from downtown merchants, JVJ began to plan an enclosed mall for downtown Lawrence.
The proposed mall will have three entrances for pedestrians on its front, facing Massachusetts Street. A parking garage, which will be on the east side of the complex x will have several entrances and enough spaces for walking along street parking and sidewalks will be retained.
During the past year, JVJ has met 14 times with Action 80, a private citizens group concerned with improving downtown Lawrence. Members of that group comments that would meet that group's approval.
Don Jones, representative of Jacobs, Visconi, and Jacobs, the Cleveland based developers of the proposed Lawrence shopping mail, answers questions about how Jacobs will be able to improve its performance.
See MALL page seven
the developer's proposal for a $33 million downtown mall. A scale model of
the plane would enable the plan during the presentation in
the Lawrence High School cafeteria.
Only a hand-lettered nameplate on a mailbox remains to show that Lee Roy Blake lived at 1006 Kentucky St. Blake's body was buried Sunday in his swertier apartment.
Invalid discovered dead in heat-baked apartment
By VANCEHINER and LAURA LUCKERT
Fort-four-year-old Lee Roy Blake was released last Wednesday from the cool comfort of Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he had been hospitalized in action in the stump where his right leg used to be.
Staff Reporters
He went home to his cramped apartment on the first floor of an old gray house at 1065 Kentucky St. After hobbling up the steps, he picked up his mail and entered the shaded hallway. He shut the door to be alone and away from the glare of the suffocating 108-degree heat.
He never came out again.
On Sunday Robert Reed, Blake's stepbrother, came to visit he hadn't heard from him
for a few days. Reed sensed something was wrong and went to the landlord for the key. The stench he remembered from his days in the military stoned him at the doorway.
The police were called and they found Blake's body on the kitchen floor. The house was like an oven, the windows closed. No air-conditioner. No fan.
Blake's sister-in-law, Geraldale Blake, and Reed went to the funeral Tuesday. No one else came. According to Reed, Lee Roy Blake had no friends.
From the bits and pieces of information gathered from his relatives and neighbors, it is evident that Blake's life had not been an easy one. He worked too much and worked at odd jobs most of his life.
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Weather
The weather forecast calls for temperatures to remain hot with little chance of rain through the weekend. The high temperature today will be about 100 with partly cloudy skies and winds from the southwest at 10-20 mph. Tonight skies will remain partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunder-showers. The low temperature will be about 75. Tomorrow will be sunny and the high temperature will be about 100 with partly cloudy chance of thunder-showers. Tomorrow night's low will again be about 75. The extended forecast calls for high temperatures near 100 during the day and nighttime of about 75. The heat will continue through the weekend with a chance of showers on Monday. Lows in the 70s can be expected, and highs will be around 105.